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Le Brassus (Switzerland), December 3, 1882 - † Deauville (France), August 4, 1970
Edmond Audemars was a cyclist, aviator and Swiss entrepreneur. He was a distant cousin of Jules-Louis Audemars, who created in 1881 with Edward-Auguste Piguet the "Haute Horlogerie Manufacture Audemars Piguet".
Successively world champion amateur cyclist then motorcyclist (and general agent in Germany for Motosacoche), he obtained his pilot's license (No. 100) in June 1910 and was engaged as chief pilot for Louis Blériot.
He was a friend of Roland Garros, with whom he stayed in the United States.
Demobilized in 1915, he was hired as an agent of Lecoultre & Cie with Jaeger (aircraft flight instruments company). Participant in the Jaeger-Le Coultre Association in 1917, Jaeger commercial director in 1923, he was for several decades director of Le Coultre & Cie.
Edmond Audemars was World Champion Middle Distance Amateur in 1903 (in Copenhagen).
Edmond Audemars participated in the Rouen Aviation Week in June 1910. He flew a Santos-Dumont Demoiselle monoplane at the 2nd Great Champagne Aviation Week of 1910.
He was the first to fly from Paris to Berlin in two days in 1912 with a Morane-Saulnier airplane and temporarily broke the altitude record in 1915, reaching 6,600 m (21,650 ft).
On July 12, 1913, he wins the Batschari Cup, flying from Berlin to Paris in 10 hours, in his Morane-Saulnier monoplane with Gnome engine, Oleo spark plugs and Chauvière propeller.
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